Degrees: MFA - University of Montana; BS - University of California, Berkeley
Date began at WNMU: 1981

Community Involvement: Founder and director of Alimento para el Nino, a school-based food pantry program for children in Grant County; president of conservation organization, Upper Gila Watershed Association; member of Mayor’s Advisory Council on Climate Change

Book Publications:

Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (Basic Books, 2008)

Hunger: An Unnatural History (Basic Books, 2005)

An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect (Perseus Books, 2003)

Anatomy of a Rose (Perseus Books, 2001)

The Last Matriarch (UNM Press, 2000)

When the Land was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology (Addison-Wesley, 1996)

The Humpbacked Fluteplayer (Knopf, 1994)

Kill the Cowboy : A Battle of Mythology in the New West (Addison-Wesley, 1993)

Songs of the Fluteplaye r (Addison-Wesley, 1991)

Teaching Experience

Sharman Russell began teaching writing skills at WNMU in 1981. Many of her classes now are online.

Along with the classes she teaches here at WNMU, Ms. Russell also teaches graduate students in the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

Professor Russell has been a guest speaker and visiting writer at numerous regional and national conferences.